Quotes About Past

My husband is stricken with dementia, and it's a trick of his condition that events and people from his past are more real to him than what happened five minutes ago.

The present hardly exists, after all-it becomes the past even as it happens. A tricky medium, time - and central to the concerns of fiction.

Fear comes from your past observations. That fear settles inside you. It becomes your psyche. Something triggers it and it fuels that subconscious. There is no logic to it.

I took Laura on a trip once where we followed the Immigrant Trail for about six hundred miles. She really learned a lesson. People forget too often how it was back then.

Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird.

We should make sure that we are never sending our troops into harm's way unless they're sent with a clear strategy to win, and learning lessons of the past to ensure that best path forward with what lies ahead.

The West has demonstrated its ability in the past to project power and move troops to distant regions.

Our country is in deep trouble. To talk and re-litigate in 1998, or even what Mitt Romney said or didn't say in 1994 or 2002, I don't think most people really care.

It is hard to celebrate the past in an ecumenical way, or even in a fair-minded one, apparently. The trouble with the past is not just that it's behind us, it's that it is not even over yet.

I've had a pretty chequered past, you know, as a kid, as a troubled kid.

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Carrickmacross always had a border mentality. Smuggling would have been a big thing there in the past; there would have been spillover from the Troubles in Northern Ireland.

True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.

The love I have for my ex-girlfriends will always be there, so I think that's true love.

My evangelical phase about Burning Man is well and truly in the past.

There's no future in our past. Just experience. We want to return to it, but we don't want to close the door on it either.

I hate nostalgia, I want nothing to do with it.

The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.

I guess sometimes the past just catches up to you, whether you want it to or not.

People want to be famous, they want to be loved, they want to be accepted. They want to push aside their past and the things that have been embarrassing to them.

I am not blaming the past. ... But I want the peace of God to settle on the future.

I don't really believe in regret. I think you can always learn from the past, but I wouldn't want a different life.

You can't ignore history; you can't escape it even if you want to. You might as well know where you come from, and you might as well know that everything has been done in some shape or form.

Maybe I'm wrong because I've not met the person yet, I really don't think I'd want to be with someone in the industry. I really don't think so. Once bitten, twice shy.